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Skills Demonstration (Storytelling)

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Early Childhood Education Date: Skills Demonstration (storytelling) Introduction: (1) Aims: The aim of this assignment is to demonstrate and plan a story to read to a group of children aged 2 and half to 4. I chose this age group because this is the group I work with on a daily bases from 9:30 to 12:30 five days a week. I am picking a story called “Oh Dear” by Rod Campbell who is a Scottish writer and illustrator of several popular children's books including the classic lift-the-flap board book “Dear Zoo”. As it is a story that helps the …show more content…

I took out the book I was going to read and the props to go with it. I then got together a group of 5 children and brought them over to the quite area/library and gave them their cushions to sit on and get comfy I then showed them the book I had chosen and asked them if they want me to read it to them and as they all said yes I began telling the story. I had enlarged pictures of the animals to hand out to the children to look at and hold up while I was reading so they could recognise and match the animals together. I used a very cheerful and happy sort of dramatic tone of voice to help keep there interest. As I read each page I had a child come up to open the flap on the page to see what animal was behind it and make the sound that animal made. At the end of the story I asked then children if they had ever been to a farm or if they have any animals at home and they had plenty of storeys to tell me so they each had a turn while the others listened. Montessori observed how the children learned the language without anyone teaching them. This sparked her idea for the “absorbent mind’. For children under the age of three they do not need to have lessons in order to learn, they simply absorb everything in the environment by experiencing it, being part of it. It is therefore important that the environment set up is good, nice and positive since this is

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